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The Long Dark Teatime Of The Soul
''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'' is a 1988 humorous fantasy detective fiction, detective novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book by Adams featuring detective, private detective Dirk Gently, the first being ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency''. Adams had intended to follow it with a third such novel, ''The Salmon of Doubt'', but he died before completing it; an unfinished draft is included in The Salmon of Doubt, a posthumously published collection of the same name. ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'' has been The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (radio serial), adapted for radio, and several plot lines appear in the Dirk Gently (TV series), 2010 BBC TV series. Title The title is a phrase that appeared in Adams' novel ''Life, the Universe and Everything'' to describe the wretched boredom of immortal being Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, and is a play on the theological treatise ''Dark Night of the Soul'', by Saint John of the Cross. The novel is named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. It was further developed into The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series), a television series, several stage plays, comics, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game), a video game, and a 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in Radio Academy, The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. Adams also wrote ''Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'' (1987) and ''The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul'' (1988), and co-wrote ''The Meaning of Liff'' (1983), ''The Deeper Meaning of Liff'' (1990), and ''Last Chance to See'' (1990). He wrote t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
